At the start of every season, the autosport.com team members and contributors do the brave thing and put their bets down on who will be the world champion and which team will win the constructors' championship. Collecting together everyone's votes results in what autosport.com predicts will be the championship standings at the end of the season. Eight months on, we'll know if we rule or if we're a bunch of fools...

For the first time in four years, 11 teams enter the Formula One World Championship. Some are better prepared than others; some have more to prove; and some have more to lose. Tom Keeble analyses the prospects and objectives of each team